as in canceled
to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)
their film deal had been abruptly cried off, and now the filmmakers were back to square one
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Parades, concerts and fireworks shows were canceled or delayed in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware for July 3 and 4.
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Philadelphia canceled its Wawa Welcome America parade, Washington’s Great American State Fair temporarily closed Friday afternoon, and other celebrations have delayed public entry to reduce exposure during the hottest hours.
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Saipov, who had rented a truck and planned to target a Manhattan parade, found the route blocked by these barriers and abandoned that plan.
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They are being abandoned not just by Thomson but by large segments of their original audience.
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On the sixth day of France’s heat wave, when temperatures reached record highs, shoppers scrapped over box fans, and Americans and Europeans beefed on X, a neighbor in our apartment building near Paris finally broke down and texted me.
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Alas, Vanilla Ice played for no one Friday after weather scrapped his Freedom 250 concert just two hours before his performance.
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In North Carolina, permits are immediately revoked if a restaurant scores below 70%.
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Ask how the agent acting on your behalf is cryptographically identified as well as how quickly a compromised credential can be revoked without affecting the rest of the system.
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An American Airlines flight headed to Bermuda aborted its takeoff in Miami Saturday evening after a business jet entered the same runway, getting as close as a third of a mile apart at one point.
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Verstappen's crash at the final pair of corners brought out yellow flags, which Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli erroneously thought were double-waved yellow flags and aborted his lap.
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The pair once again called off their romance two years later.
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Mission managers called off two launch attempts Tuesday and Wednesday due to poor weather around the L-1011’s staging base on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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Most of those restrictions were repealed in 1985, but the weekend sale restriction for car dealerships remained in place.
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In 1971, weary of the war in Vietnam, Congress repealed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution.
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